Conferences

Organized events

Getting published in an interdisciplinary context. Workshop for doctoral students. University of Glasgow. 17 May 2016 [in collaboration with the School of Culture and Creative Arts and the University of Stirling].

Moving Memories. Remembering and Reviving Conflict, Protest and Social Unrest in Connected Times. Institute of Modern Language Research, University of London. 27 November 2014 [together with Christine Lohmeier and Christian Pentzold, in collaboration with Jordana Blejmar]. Title of presentation: 'The witches are back! Mediating memories of second‐wave feminism in contemporary Italy.'

Emotions and oral history workshop. With Dr Rebecca Clifford. University of Glasgow. 4 November 2014.

The ambiguity of motherly love. Film screening & roundtable discussion. University of Glasgow. 14 May 2014.

Competing Victimhoods in Spain and ItalyTitle paper: 'Gendering the Affective Labour of Victims of State Violence in Contemporary Italy.’University College Dublin, Dublin (Republic of Ireland), 22 May 2015.

Centre for Gender History Seminar Series: ‘“We are not heiresses.” Generational memory, heritage, and inheritance in contemporary Italian feminism’ University of Glasgow. 2 February 2015.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Seminar Series: 'Challenging the stereotype of the mamma italiana. Second-wave feminist approaches to maternity and childbirth in Italy' [invited talk]University of London. 26 November 2014. Podcast available here

European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2014Organization of panel, with Dr Rebecca Clifford (University of Swansea), in the Oral History Network theme entitled 'Crises and Ruptures in Memory and Narrative'. Title of panel: 'Mediating Ruptures and Silences in the Memory of the 1960s and 1970s in Europe.' Title paper: 'Silences and dominant narratives of motherhood and abortion in the memories of women activists in 1970s Italy.' University of Vienna (Austria), 23-26 April 2014.

Scottish Oral History Centre Monthly Seminar Series: 'Silences and dominant narratives of motherhood and abortion in the memories of women activists in 1970s Italy' [invited talk]

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 3 March 2014.

Memory and Restitution Title paper: 'Conflict, consensus and moral compensation: working through the trauma of state violence.' University of Westminster, 5-6 July 2013.

Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) Annual Conference: Basta! Patterns of Protest in Modern Italy: History, Agents and Representations. Title paper: 'Dal basso alla bassa: grassroots mobilization in post-earthquake Emilia Romagna.' Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS), School of Advanced Study, University of London. 23-24 November 2012.

'Facebook, photography and family albums. The digital (r)evolution of an Italian activist generation' [invited talk in the C21 curatorship lecture series]British Library. 21 November 2012.

What is Post/autonomia today? Title paper: 'Appropriating memories of resistance. Crash and the legacy of Autonomia in Bologna.' SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (NL). 19-21 May 2011.

Conflicts of Memory. Mediating and Commemorating the 2005 London Bombings Symposium Title paper: 'Negotiating memories of conflict: the Italian student protests of 1977 in the media (1977-2007).' University of Nottingham. 4-5 December 2010.

Postgraduate Forum Birmingham-Warwick Title paper: 'Urban Traces of Conflict: Bologna and the Memory of March 1977.' University of Birmingham. 18 May 2009.

Interdisciplinary Workshop The Challenges of Social and Historical Research Title paper: 'Speaking out visually: Graffiti as a form of protest in the creation of a new subjectivity for Italian youth cultures. 1968-1977.' University of Warwick. 11-14 May 2009.

Denuncia: Speaking up in modern Italy Title paper: 'Crash vs. Cofferati: the Transference of a Model of Resistance.' New York University & Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York City (USA). 27-28 March 2009.